The interfaces are relatively modern too, with VGA and a PS/2 keyboard.

Putin DID make him a colonel tho

Dude you weren’t kidding. “New” was always a pile of ass, and just now I went back to Reddit for a little bit just to poke around and see how “new new” is. It was better for the first two things I clicked on (actually better than both old and new IMO for popping open memes and pictures), and then I clicked on an actual thread, and (1) the thread was clearly a fake story (2) it broke the back button and I couldn’t go anywhere else until it snapped me suddenly back to mbin again.

I decided to take that as a sign

I think they just have no idea what they’re doing. There’s no master plan. It is devolving into botshit, but not on purpose; it’s just because all the people with anything remotely resembling qualifications to run one of the world’s biggest social media sites have left the building at this point.

As I remember, it was just too much powder in the cartridge. I could be wrong though.

It was because of the ammo. They tested later with more rounds from the same batch, and those ones also exploded.

FBI: Ssssh dude don’t blow it for the rest of us

Also, export your DBs first, and snapshot the export instead of the raw DB files

borg

Don’t worry, nations of the world and everyone involved even low level military people are always perfectly sensible

What’s the worst that could happen

China is one hell of a lot more competent than Russia

I think the main saving grace is that whatever posturing individual people want to do, China has a good thing going on with trade with the West which no one involved on either side wants to fuck up.

I tried to find a Scary Go Round archive with the whole subplot of the communist robots having a party at the bus station and fucking the buses, but it is too old to be available, I think 😢

Did you not know that planes have pee pees

Dude you guys are having enough fuel problems

You don’t need to have a military vehicle that needs a special place to charge or else to be plugged in to mains for like 12 hours

I mean you can do what you like, but this seems pants on head mentally disabled

Tell them I love them

Yeah, 100% agree

Lemmy has a sizable, vocal minority

This part I think is the key portion

Here’s the context for the thousands separator thing. They seem willfully committed to pretending not to understand the question or realize why it might be something someone would ask about, in a way that seems like a very unlikely way for a non-shill user to respond. To me.

Here’s another one where the user is posting a pretty steady tide of propaganda (like, literally, videos from channels which are featured on rt.com) and not wanting to answer questions about what they’re posting. I get that the questions aren’t phrased real friendly-like, but they’re not like random or senseless questions, and the user doesn’t seem fazed at all by them or interested at all in the idea of demonstrating that they’re posting in good faith.

Yeah, that part makes perfect sense. Getting hostile and pretending not to understand the question is what seemed more damning to me about it.

You’re right that there’s no way to know for sure. But to me the circumstantial evidence is very strong.

1. I will not
2. Done thank you

I am also confused by why there would be organized shills on Lemmy. But to me the evidence is pretty clear (e.g. an account that’s super into talking about US politics that one day uses $5.000.000 with decimal points to separate thousands in a number, and people ask hey what’s up with that are you not from the US? and they get hostile and pretend not to understand the question) (e.g. a strong correlation between accounts that say “Democrat party” and that want you not to vote for the Democrats claiming to come from a left wing point of view) (things like that).

IDK, there are a few tens of thousands of people on Lemmy; maybe it makes sense to allocate a single person from a troll farm to run a bunch of accounts. I have no idea. It also seems weird to me, I get what you’re saying, but to me it does seem clear that quite a few of them are here.